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Open to anyone, tags for visibility more than anything.

The goings-on between the children did not go without notice by Arius, so far the quietest of the bunch. He was aware of the fuss being made over @Veteran and @Makatza's fighting, as well as the stress strung about the adults over @Sikuliak. Did he care very much about it? No, not really. The boy didn't have a strong attachment to any of his siblings - or the other children - and took the fretting of the adults as an annoyance, but nothing more.

He was much more intrigued by the act of people watching on a day-to-day basis. Whatever the children got up to was lackluster, because he saw them every day, and their antics weren't as steeped in novelty as the behaviors of the adults. The boy tried often enough to sneak from the shared den, and with the latest commotion focusing @Wintersbane and @Tzila upon the other children, Arius felt a rare freedom that he could exploit.

It wasn't easy, sneaking away from the den, but he managed it more often these days. His legs were longer, his sense of direction a touch keener, and he knew to stay quiet and hidden away if he detected any footfalls; and so Arius escaped, and when he thought he was an ample distance away from the chaos, his caution ebbed away quickly.